async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event
this makes "rm -rf" on a (names cached) kernel tree go from
11.6 to 8.6 seconds on an ext3 filesystem
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 7a6e8c2..0013ac1 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/bootmem.h>
#include <linux/inotify.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
/*
* This is needed for the following functions:
@@ -1138,16 +1139,11 @@
* I_FREEING is set so that no-one will take a new reference to the inode while
* it is being deleted.
*/
-void generic_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
+static void generic_delete_inode_async(void *data, async_cookie_t cookie)
{
+ struct inode *inode = data;
const struct super_operations *op = inode->i_sb->s_op;
- list_del_init(&inode->i_list);
- list_del_init(&inode->i_sb_list);
- inode->i_state |= I_FREEING;
- inodes_stat.nr_inodes--;
- spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
-
security_inode_delete(inode);
if (op->delete_inode) {
@@ -1171,6 +1167,16 @@
destroy_inode(inode);
}
+void generic_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ list_del_init(&inode->i_list);
+ list_del_init(&inode->i_sb_list);
+ inode->i_state |= I_FREEING;
+ inodes_stat.nr_inodes--;
+ spin_unlock(&inode_lock);
+ async_schedule_special(generic_delete_inode_async, inode, &inode->i_sb->s_async_list);
+}
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_delete_inode);
static void generic_forget_inode(struct inode *inode)
diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index ddba069..cb20744 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/kobject.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&s->s_anon);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_inodes);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_dentry_lru);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->s_async_list);
init_rwsem(&s->s_umount);
mutex_init(&s->s_lock);
lockdep_set_class(&s->s_umount, &type->s_umount_key);
@@ -289,11 +291,18 @@
{
const struct super_operations *sop = sb->s_op;
+
if (sb->s_root) {
shrink_dcache_for_umount(sb);
fsync_super(sb);
lock_super(sb);
sb->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE;
+
+ /*
+ * wait for asynchronous fs operations to finish before going further
+ */
+ async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
+
/* bad name - it should be evict_inodes() */
invalidate_inodes(sb);
lock_kernel();
@@ -449,6 +458,7 @@
if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
continue;
sb->s_need_sync_fs = 1;
+ async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
}
restart:
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d7eba77..e38a64d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1184,6 +1184,11 @@
* generic_show_options()
*/
char *s_options;
+
+ /*
+ * storage for asynchronous operations
+ */
+ struct list_head s_async_list;
};
extern struct timespec current_fs_time(struct super_block *sb);
